My Favorite Day of the AP® Year...
The test is over! Your students feel much better and relieved now that the exam is over. Score releases are in the distant future. You feel relieved as well. Now…we wait.
Prepping Your Students for the AP® English Exams
It’s a month before the AP exam and you’re freaking out- You're trying to think about what you need to review with your students, what you should ask them to do, how you can best support them. What do you do? How do you set them up for success? How can you encourage them to review what they have...
AP® English: Sophistication & Complexity Webinar
The sophistication point on the essay rubrics often meets with much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Students want to know how to write it. Teachers want to know how to teach it. Readers want to know how to reward it. Consultants and trainers want to know how to advise it.
Architecture, Design & Structure in Literature
Ernest Hemingway once famously said that “Prose is architecture. It’s not interior design.” Well-known for the sparsity and tight structure of his prose, this is no surprise. That said, there are a number of other writers (and readers) who would no doubt argue with this. Where would most poems be...
Rhetorical Analysis: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
This resource will introduce students to each element of the rhetorical situation as it relates to a complex text, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr. While students will not have a multitude of supplemental links to help them navigate the rhetorical situation for every text...
AP® Literature at The Middle of the Year
It’s December. You’re tired. You are fairly certain that you cannot lead another discussion about—or design another activity around—something like the juxtaposition of short sentences and longer sentences in the same text and the effect that variance would have on the text.
“Where in the…?" — A Conversation on Literature & Setting
Everything happens somewhere.
Hester and Pearl live on the outskirts of town; George and Lennie start off in the wilderness but then live on a farm; Sethe has to live in Cincinnati with her flashbacks across the river in Kentucky; and while Garcin, Inez, and Estelle suffer in their single room in...
AP® Lang: The Dialectical Journal
This resource is designed to provide structure, guidance, and inspiration for students to complete a series of dialectical journal entries based on their independent reading of longer works. The resources provided can be used with any text of various mediums, but this specifically is designed to...
AP® Lang: A Lesson in Close Reading
This resource is designed to provide a guided lesson on close reading, specifically imagery, figurative language, word choice, tone, and tonal shift and how these elements can enhance our understanding of a work.
8 Tips for New Teachers on How to Be Successful in an AP® Course
Over years of experience teaching an AP® course (in my case, AP® World History), I’ve been able to compile a list of “must do” tips and suggestions for teachers who have never taught an AP® course before. They offer insight into not only surviving your first year teaching AP®, but also how to guide...
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